Thursday, March 6, 2008

A Dozen (12) Ways to Remember the Alamo

1. Buy 250 40s of St. Ides and pour out a little of each one for every Texan killed at the Alamo.

2. Rent a luxury coupe from Alamo Rent-a-Car and drive it to a bad neighborhood. Once there, heroically defend it from being carjacked.

3. See something at San Antonio's Alamodome. The next scheduled event is Disney’s High School Musical on Ice, which will be running from March 19th through the 23rd.

4. If you own a sailboat and live in the greater Los Angeles area, avoid propelling your ship with the Santa Ana winds.

5. Come up with a mnemonic device that links the Alamo to an image or phrase that’s already vivid in your memory. This will make it easier than ever to remember the Alamo.

6. Sponsor an orphan from a war-torn African country and rename him Alamo Davy Crockett Mbenge.

7. Put little sombreros on your cats and have them play the Mexican army in your living room reenactment of the Battle of the Alamo.
NOTE: This works best if you are a crazy cat lady who lives with hundreds of cats.

8. Go to your local Tex-Mex restaurant but only order from the Tex portion of the menu.

9. See if you can get charges reinstated against Ozzy Osbourne for the time in 1982 when he got drunk at 11 AM and urinated on the side of the Alamo.

10. Write a series of alternate history novels that take place in a universe where Jim Bowie survives the Battle of the Alamo and years later uses his signature knife to disembowel Hitler before he can rise to power.

11. If you’re a pastry chef, refer to the desserts that come with a scoop of ice cream as being served “A la mo”.

12. Remember it the way you remember everything else: with interpretive dance.

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